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Lydia

by Marilyn Kaye · 1987

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Fourteen-year-old Lydia, always keen to espouse controversial issues, gets varying degrees of support from her three sisters when she forms an alternative school newspaper and campaigns in favor of letting girls try out for the football team.

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Setting
schoolschoolMore like thisLess of this
Audience
childrens
Length
short · 129 pages

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